Silencing Theodicy with Enthusiasm: Aesthetic Experience as a Response to the Problem of Evil in Shaftesbury, Annie Dillard, and the Book of Job

The problem of evil is not only a logical problem about God's goodness but also an existential problem about the sense of God's presence, which the Biblical book of Job conceives as a problem of aesthetic experience. Thus, just as theism can be grounded in religious experience, atheism can...

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Main Author: McAteer, John (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2016]
In: Heythrop journal
Year: 2016, Volume: 57, Issue: 5, Pages: 788-795
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
HB Old Testament
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
NBC Doctrine of God
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